Admissions

The admission of boys to Winchester at age thirteen is largely in the hands of Housemasters. When a boy is eight years old his name can be registered for entry into the School as a prospective member of a particular boarding House.

Education

A Winchester education is unique. Our pupils enjoy good teaching and our teachers enjoy the liveliness of bright pupils. Success in examinations is one consequence of this, but we think it more important to encourage boys to love learning.

Pastoral Care

Everything we do at Winchester is an aspect of our pastoral care of the boys; classes, sports teams, clubs and societies. We are a fully resident community and we think of ourselves as a network of friends.

Support Us

Community

Although the School is immediately outside the mediaeval city walls of Winchester near to Kingsgate, it has always been a part of the wider community and this is nowhere more evident than in its current geography.

Archives

Winchester's oldest records are housed in the purpose built room in which they were always intended to be housed. The thickness of the walls in this room maintains a very even temperature, which has helped to ensure over the centuries the survival of the

Privacy Policy

Use of Links

Throughout our Web pages, we provide links to other servers which may contain information of interest to OWs. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other servers.

Creating a text link from your Web site to our site does not require permission. If you have a link you would like us to consider adding to our Web site, please send e-mail to cgy@wincoll.ac.uk with the subject "WykSoc Link request."

Terms of use

Access to and use of Winchester College web sites ('WinchesterCollege.co.uk'; 'WykSoc.com'; 'WinchesterCollege.org'; 'Wincoll.ac.uk') is provided by Winchester College subject to the following terms:

By using the Winchester College web sites you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of any of the Winchester College web sites. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use any of the Winchester College web sites.

Winchester College may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by Winchester College. Your continued use of any Winchester College web site after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of Winchester College web sites

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use any Winchester College web site content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Winchester College web sites content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of any Winchester College web site content requires the prior written permission of Winchester College.

You agree to use all Winchester College web sites only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of Winchester College web sites. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within any Winchester College web site.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

Winchester College web site content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Winchester College and/or WykSoc, its services (or to third party services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Under no circumstances will Winchester College and/or WykSoc be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of any Winchester College web site regardless of the form of action.

Winchester College does not warrant that functions contained in Winchester College web site content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that any Winchester College web sites or the servers that make the sites available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying Winchester College, WykSoc or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of Winchester College, WykSoc and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of Winchester College, WykSOc, or any other third party.

Contributions to Winchester College Web Sites

Where you are invited to submit any contribution to any Winchester College web site (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Winchester College a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Winchester College's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Winchester College the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to Winchester College.

Further to paragraph above, by submitting your contribution to any Winchester College web site, you:

warrant that your contribution

is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Winchester College for all the purposes specified above;

is not defamatory; and

does not infringe any law; and

indemnify Winchester College against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Winchester College as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and

waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on any Winchester College web site and the purposes specified above.

Winchester College Web Sites - Rules

You agree to use any Winchester College web site (including Message Boards) in accordance with the following Rules. These apply across all Winchester College web sites.

About your posts

Contributions must be civil and tasteful

No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.

If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.

Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be using the Winchester College web sites.

No spamming: we don't allow the use of the Winchester College web sites for the dissemination of 'Spam'.

No advertising

Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed

No impersonation

You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the topic being discussed, please inform the Webmaster.

Safety:

We advise that you carefully consider whether to reveal personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: your telephone number, home address or email address).

About the law:

You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in any Winchester College web site. This includes text, graphics, video or audio.

Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

Any views expressed in Winchester College web sites are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of Winchester College.

If you breach these Terms of Use:

Failing to abide by these Rules may result in action being taken against you. This action may include your relevant account being suspended. If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to any Winchester College web site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any Winchester College web site, and Winchester College considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Winchester College may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email or Internet Service provider about the infringement/s.

Winchester College reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
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Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

Introduction
This policy covers Winchester College's use of personal information collected when you use visit WinchesterCollege.co.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies; WINCHESTER COLLEGE and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself in order to use parts of our website. Such services include e-mail forwarding, event registration, message boards and WykSoc.com membership.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Winchester College and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information Winchester College will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to WinchesterCollege.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of WinchesterCollege.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse WinchesterCollege.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for WinchesterCollege.co.uk services.

Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to WinchesterCollege.co.uk (e.g. for WykSoc.com membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to Winchester College will only be used within Winchester College and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to WinchesterCollege.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on WinchesterCollege.co.uk, Winchester College can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of WykSoc.com membership, you no longer wish to continue your registration as a WinchesterCollege.co.uk member. For safety reasons, however, Winchester College may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of WykSoc.com services such as e-mail forwarding for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have supplied information, that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Winchester College holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.) Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, The Bursary, Winchester College, 7 College Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9NA.

Confidentiality Statement
All data saved on the Win Coll Soc's database is held securely and will be treated as confidential and for the sole benefit of the Society, its members and Winchester College. The data is available to the Win Coll Soc office, and upon appropriate application from its membership, to recognised societies, sports and other clubs associated with the School. Data is used for a full range of alumni activities, including the distribution of Winchester College Society and School publications, notification of events and the promotion of any benefits and services that may be available. Data may also be used in the School's fundraising programmes, but will never be passed to external commerical or other organisations, or sold on auction sites.

Use of photographs
Photographs will be taken at events and may be displayed on our Win Coll Soc website and in other School media. Please let our photographer know if you do not wish to have your photograph taken for this purpose.

How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

Choose View, then

Internet Options

Click the Advanced tab

Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

Edit, then

Preferences

Click on Advanced

Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

Edit, then

Preferences

Click on Advanced

Click on Cookies

Click the View Cookies button

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:

Choose Tools, then

Internet Options

Click the General tab

Click Settings

View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

View, then

Internet Options

Under the tab General (the default tab) click

Settings

View Files.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

View

Options

Advanced

View Files.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.